If you haven't heard of Room...

If you haven't heard of Emma Donoghue's Room yet, you should definitely check it out.  Donoghue has just been nominated for the Orange Prize long list after already being nominated for the Booker Prize short list, and it's always nice to see a Canadian book with buzz get an audiobook edition. Fans of topical, contemporary fiction like Jodi Picoult should love this one, which is about a boy and his mother locked away in a room.  From the Globe and Mail's review:

"One of the many virtues of Room – the London, Ont., resident’s book has just been short-listed for this year’s Man Booker Prize – is how it addresses this question by reminding us of not just the terror, but also the daily tedium and the resilient humanity of the victims." 

Click here for the full review, or click here for the audiobook.